Mark D. Martin was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina from 2014 through 2019. He was appointed by North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to become Chief Justice on September 1, 2014 upon the retirement of Sarah Parker. Martin was already running for the seat in the 2014 general election.
Eric L. Levinson is an American jurist and lawyer. In 2014, he unsuccessfully sought a seat as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. He also completed a public policy program in comparative economics and politics through the Fund for American Studies in Washington, D.C., and an international finance studies program in London, England, as part of his undergraduate requirements.
David S. Tatel is an American jurist and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 1994.
Brigadier General Thomas Hemingway is an American military lawyer who has served as a legal advisor to the Office of Military Commissions. Thomas Hemingway was a distinguished graduate of the Air Force ROTC program, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in November 1962 after earning his undergraduate degree at Willamette University. Upon graduation, he took an educational delay and earned his doctor of jurisprudence in 1965 at Willamette University College of Law. Hemingway entered active service in November 1965. He has also been an associate professor of law at the United States Air Force Academy and a senior judge on the Air Force Court of Military Review. He is a current member of the state bar in Oregon and the District of Columbia, and has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States. He retired from active service in October 1996. General Hemingway was recalled to active service in August 2003 to fill the position as Legal Adviser to the Convening Authority in the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions, Washington, D.C. General. He was replaced by Thomas W. Hartmann in July 2007.
The Superior Court of the District of Columbia, commonly referred to as DC Superior Court, is the trial court for the District of Columbia, in the United States. It hears cases involving criminal and civil law, as well as family court, landlord and tenant, probate, tax, and driving violations. All appeals of Superior Court decisions go to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
John Anthony Danaher was a United States Senator from Connecticut, and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
John Deacon Bates is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in December 2001, and has adjudicated several cases directly affecting the office of the President. Bates served as Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, from July 1, 2013 to January 5, 2015, after which he returned to full-time service as a District Judge.
Andrew Fois is an attorney who served as the Deputy Attorney General for Public Safety in the Office of the Attorney General in Washington, D.C. from April 9, 2012 to March 2015. He was awarded the Edmund Randolph Award, the Justice Department's highest honor for distinguished service.
Loren A. Smith is a Senior Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.
Thomas Beall Griffith is a former federal judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before his appointment to the bench he was Senate Legal Counsel, the chief legal officer of the United States Senate. In November 2011, Griffith was included on The New Republic's list of Washington's most powerful, but least famous, people. In April 2021, President Joe Biden named Griffith to the new Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States
Randall Ray Rader is a former United States Circuit Judge and former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
James Robertson was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 1994 until his retirement in June 2010. Robertson also served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2002 until December 2005, when he resigned from that court in protest against warrantless wiretapping.
Beryl Alaine Howell is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She was a federal judge supervising the grand jury for special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
The Attorney General for the District of Columbia is the chief legal officer of the District of Columbia. Previously appointed by the Mayor, District of Columbia voters approved a charter amendment in 2010 which made the office an elected position beginning in 2015.
Mary Ellen Coster Williams is a Senior Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, appointed to that court in 2003 by President George W. Bush.
Inez Smith Reid is a former judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and former Corporation Counsel of the District of Columbia.
Anna Elizabeth Blackburne-Rigsby is the Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the highest appellate court for the District of Columbia. After graduating from Duke University and getting her Juris Doctor degree from Howard University, she now works as the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. She works very closely with her husband Robert Rigsby and has great influence from her mother, Laura D. Blackburne.
Gerard Denis Reilly was an official at the United States Department of Labor and the chief judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
Annice M. Wagner is a former judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She served as Chief Judge from 1994 to 2005.
